Awakened

"Wow! We have chicken, Elaine! Chicken!" Von excitedly said, jumping up and down.

"Is there a celebration?"

Vince smiled at his two siblings who couldn't hide the smile on their lips.

"Hm?" he looked down at his sister who walked towards him and tugged the hem of his shirt.

"Brother, is it okay for us to eat this?" Elaine sincerely asked.

"Of course. Brother bought it for you two, don't you like it?"

Elaine shook her head. "It's not like that. I like it but... it must be expensive."

This made Vince smile. Elaine is already 13 years old and very matured. Unlike Von, who's only six years old, she act like the mother of their family, taking care of Von and the household chores when he's out to work.

"It's fine. Eat it. Brother will earn a lot of money so you two should enjoy it, okay?" he gently ruffled Elaine's hair.

"Fine. I'll enjoy it very much," she sat on the floor beside Von and starts eating too.

The three of them are orphans. They live in the Outer Layer, here in the South continent, in a small apartment. This room doesn't have any bed, kitchen, dining or living room. Just a small space, a sink and a bathroom.

Even though they were poor and could barely afford to buy their food, Vince bought fried chicken today. The reason for this luxurious food is because he found out that he awakened.

Vince glanced at the hologram screen in the air.

[Player Vince has awakened. Updating status window...]

He had been waiting for an hour now and he's feeling impatient. He wanted to know his class so that he could register himself to the Player Association to get his license.

He wanted to quickly start working as a player. After all, being a player is the highest paying job.

'Well, I'll just check it later.' He thought as he sat down and dine with his siblings.

After eating, Vince decides to wash the dishes while Von wash up and Elaine lay their matress, pillows and blankets, things that they will need for sleeping.

Clank- Clack-

"Um, brother," he heard Elaine's voice while washing the dishes.

"Yes?"

"I wasn't able to say it earlier but, um..." Elaine bit her lower lip, embarrassed.

"What is it?" he urged his hesitating sister.

"I... actually. I need money... for a project in school. I need to buy some materials..." she shyly said.

Vince who just finished washing the dishes wiped his hand with a clean towel before taking out his wallet.

"How much do you need?" he asked.

"Eh?" Elaine was shocked at his generosity. Usually Vince would ask what materials does she need and ask her to make a list so he could buy it himself.

"How much?" he repeated.

"A-around 50 dollars..." her words fading to the end.

Vince opened his wallet and saw 100 dollars inside it. He took the 50 dollar bill and hand it out to Elaine.

"Here," he put it directly to Elaine's hand making the little girl gasp in shock.

"W-what... b-brother you..." she doesn't know what to do with the 50 dollar bill and was holding it softly, afraid that it will be torn apart.

The innocent girl started to share her honest feelings while looking at the bill with shaking pupils.

"You're being weird, brother."

"Hm? Really?" Vince know exactly what she's talking about but pretended not to know.

"Mm. First the chicken, then now this," her voice sound confused.

Vince only smiled at his sister's cuteness. He will receive one million dollars or more depending on his class from the Player Association just by registrating himself.

The association made this system so that awakened people will be encouraged to register themselves.

"You're being generous," Elaine looked at him warily. "You didn't sell you organs or something, right?"

Vince couldn't take it anymore and he let out a loud laugh.

"Pft! Puhahahaha! Ahahahaha! Hahahaha!"

The door to the bathroom opened and the now clean Von got out of the bathroom. He looked at his older brother who's laughing hard. 'Did brother go crazy?'

Elaine have the same question in her mind. She was starting to get worried about his brother's mental health.

When he's laughter died down, he crouched down to match Elaine's height.

"Oh my god. My sister is very funny. I didn't know you're a comedian," he had a wide grin on his face as he teased her.

"Don't worry about that, okay? I'll make more money than that fifty dollars so take it. You need it for your school."

It was the truth but Elaine highly doubt it.

The siblings looked at each other for a few seconds before Elaine sighed and reluctantly nodded her head.

"Okay. If you say so."

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His sibling were already fast asleep. Vince was still waiting for his status window to update. And after waiting for exactly four hours—

The hologram screen finally showed some changes.

[Status window successfully updated.]

After that, his status window appeared.

Name: Vince Stade

Age: 21

Level: 1

Rank: Common

Class: Priest

HP: 50/50

XP: 0/100

SP: 100

Strength: 12

Agility: 10

Stamina: 15

Vitality: 10

Divine Energy: 20

Charm: 10

"P-priest? Oh my god."

He was shocked silly. Priest are a very rare class and is treated nicely even among awakened people. The reason for this is because they were able to talk with Gods and/or Constellations directly.

They were able to receive blessings, quests, skills or items from them. While other players need to work hard to impress these Constellations before they could receive a sponsorship from them.

Vince was about to cry from happiness. Finally, they would be able to leave this apartment that could barely fit them. They would be able to eat three times a day and they would have a nice life.

He bit his lips. He was so emotional. After a few minutes, he was able to calm himself down and decided to check his skills.

"Skill window."

The hologram screen instantly change.

Innate Attribute: Unconquerable

-The player's stats will be boost by 300% whenever someone try to subdue or dominate you in any way.

-The player's rewards will be boosted by 50% whenever you had a hard time ccompleting the tasks.

Skills:

Analysis [A]: Allows you to get information from items, weapons etc.

Healing [S]: Allows you to heal any type of wound. External or internal.

Enhance [S]: Allows you to enhance players, monsters and item's abilities.

*Condition for players: You need to know their class, level and stats.

*Condition for monsters: You need to know their race and level.

*Condition for items(weapons, potions etc.): You need to know their rank and effects.

Last Wish [S]: Allow you to inherit the skills of a marked player.

*Condition for marking: You need to touch them in any part of their body while saying the word 'die'.

*Condition for inheriting: First of all, the player need to be dead. The dead player need to be around your rank, if the player rank higher than you, the succession rate would decrease by 50%. The skill should be about SSS-rank and below. If the skill's rank is higher, the succession rate would decrease by 50%.

Wall of Darkness [S]: A wall made of darkness would be formed when use. The durability depends on the darkness around the target.

Cruel Blade [SS]: Blades made from the player's hatred would be formed. Durability depends on the level of hatred the player is currently feeling.

Void Sphere [Legendary]: Allow you to create a small sphere made of void. Anything the hit it would ceased to exist in the world.

Divine Punishment [Mythic]: The target will slowly lose their limbs, their senses and would slowly die by suffocation.

"Huh?" his voice sounded confused.

He rubbed his eyes before looking at his skills again but nothing changed. He doesn't have a single support skills but was filled with offense skills instead.

And the skills all sound cruel enough to make him faint in shock.

"W-what...?"

He doesn't understand about what's happening. 'Isn't he a priest? What the hell? Is this okay? What kind of God is he serving? God of Torture?'

"What's with this Divine Punishment?" the effects are so cruel. It was just torture. 'What the hell?'

He started biting his nails. It's a habit of his that he do whenever he's uneasy. 'What am I supposed to register myself? Should I still be a priest? But I can't do a anything a priest can do! Aside from healing, I don't have any support skills. The enhance skill had conditions unlike normal priest's skills.'

'Should I register myself in another class? Like a warrior? Since I have this enhance skills, maybe I could enhance my body?'

While he was contemplating on what to do, a black hologram screen suddenly appeared in front of him.

His eyes widened in shock when he read what's written on it.

[The God of Death is looking at his priest with joy.]

"Eh?"

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